Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.

it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

The only thing he cares about.

It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season - like all the other seasons - is a good time not only to tell stories of miracles, but to think about the miracles in your own life, and to be grateful for them, and that's the end of this particular story.

No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.